Pentagon's top investigator has resigned under suspicion...

[elehhhhna]

!!!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-schmitz3sep03,0,3724495.story?coll=la-home-nation


September 3, 2005
latimes.com : National News
Joseph E. Schmitz, the Defense Department's inspector general, is suspected of blocking investigations of senior Bush officials.

By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top investigator has resigned amid accusations that he stonewalled inquiries into senior Bush administration officials suspected of wrongdoing.

Defense Department Inspector General Joseph E. Schmitz told staffers this week that he intended to resign as of Sept. 9 to take a job with the parent company of Blackwater USA, a defense contractor.

The resignation comes after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) sent Schmitz several letters this summer informing him that he was the focus of a congressional inquiry into whether he had blocked two criminal investigations last year.

Grassley, chairman of the Finance Committee, accused Schmitz of fabricating an official Pentagon news release, planning an expensive junket to Germany and hiding information from Congress. Schmitz is the senior Pentagon official charged with investigating waste, fraud and abuse.

"I am writing to inform you that I intend to conduct an oversight investigation into allegations that you either quashed or redirected two ongoing criminal investigations last year," Grassley said in a July 7 letter obtained by The Times.

[Solly Mack]

1. I'm so ashamed of my government. For so many reasons

and the list keeps growing...

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

2. Buh-bye...

And hopefully he won't be the last. "Investigation" may become a very popular word in the next several months with everything swirling around right now.

[babylonsister]

3. Wow. First time I'm hearing this; Sat. nite news dump? nt

[Califooyah Operative]

20. serious. nt

[MadeinOhio]

4. Finally that racist Schmitz is gone!!!

I was wondering who was blocking all the investigations and stonewalling......Now maybe the real downing street investigations can begin and we can cut through all the bullshit whitewashes. :mad: :mad:

Grassley's only doing it because he fears for his career, and I'll take anything right now. Make sure every bastard is held accountable. Schmitz should be arrested. No exscuses...

[Frustratedlady]

14. Grassley and Leach

Grassley and Leach are both demanding answers to DSM. Grassley can be dogged behind the scenes.

[Cats Against Frist]

22. Leach is awesome, for a puke

He's definitely a RINO, and gets re-elected in one of the bluest districts in Iowa. Grassley, on the other hand, scares me a little, because of his ties with the Cedars/Ivanwald stuff. But it's good to see he's doing a little something.

[Frustratedlady]

24. Grassley

You'll have to clue me in. What's Cedars/Ivanwald?

He did irritate me when he was supporting GW on the SS privatization, but most of the time, he's a pretty straight shooter. Of course, this administration is so damned corrupt, most people involved are going to have some smell to them. He has a grandson getting into politics, so I would hope he leads him via the straight and narrow.

[MadeinOhio]

31. Ivanwald is a GOP scandal going a ways back you can read via google n/t

Grassley is nothing compared to shills like Lieberman and King.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. I hope you're right

And I hope the other person is right too that we could be hearing this word a lot more.

[w13rd0]

5. Taking a job with Blackwater...

...gee, how come I'm not surprised. Hey, did anyone track down those death squads of apartheid and pinochet loyalists deployed in Iraq by these companies? Maybe they trained the Wolf Brigade...

[xray s]

9. guess who's contacted to do "security" in NOLA

BLACKWATER

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Very interesting

:tinfoilhat:

[jsamuel]

6. bad link - here is a good one

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-schmitz3sep03,1,5852616.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[elehhhhna]

11. thx, fixed.

[evilqueen]

12. Correct Link

Good link

[Independent_Liberal]

7. Hmmmm....

This sounds interesting. Thanks for posting this.

[jsamuel]

8. Is one of those investigations the TORTURE?

[coffeenap]

10. Wasnt there a discussion here about Blackwater getting involved

in NOLA? Sorry, cant find it--will keep looking.

[wli]

21. it's on blackwater's homepage

Here.

[FormerRepublican]

13. Is there ANYONE in this revolting Administration who is NOT...

criminally crooked?

[G_j]

29. No.....n/t

[AuntiBush]

17. So He Takes a Job w/a Defense Contractor.

Same ballgame, different playing field.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

19. Blackwater is the group that supplies a lot of mercs to Iraq.

[AuntiBush]

25. Real Nice. I No Longer Know What Country This Is.

This isn't my America. Where in the hell did she go, I ask...

[TheModernTerrorist]

18. bye

don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

[Jim Sagle]

34. Fuck off.

[Gabi Hayes]

35. really, man....what is HIS/ITS story, anyway?

this isn't really news, anyway, is it?

just business as usual

is there ANY hope of sustaining this outrage til the congressional elections?

not that it'll matter, seeing as how they have the voting machines all wrapped up

[slaveplanet]

23. The odiferous House of Schmitz

Complementing information presented in FTR#469, the program details the career of Joseph E. Schmitz—a very formidable individual who is Inspector General of the Department of Defense. A member of the Schmitz family discussed in FTR#469, Joseph E. Schmitz is in a vitally important position in the Pentagon and is in a very sensitive position with regard to a number of the investigations relating to 9/11. His brother—John P. Schmitz—is a partner with a powerful German-based international law firm that is also involved with a number of 9/11-related investigations. This is very important, because it places the formidable Schmitz brothers in position to have a profound effect on the investigation of 9/11. As was the case with his father and as is the case with his brother John, Joseph E. Schmitz’s world is characterized by a preoccupation with “things German.” The possibility that this obsession with “Germania” may herald an association between the ultra right-wing Schmitz family and the Underground Reich is one to be seriously considered.

Program Highlights Include: Joseph E. Schmitz’s central position with regard to a number of 9/11-related investigations including: the Sibel Edmonds case, the issue of intelligence collection vs. civil liberties and the Abu Ghraib case; Joseph Schmitz’s membership in the ultra right-wing Federalist Society; Schmitz’s participation in the American Council on Germany; Schmitz’s membership in the Sovereign Military of Malta; Schmitz’s participation in the World Security Network; Schmitz’s membership in U.S. English—an “English-only” organization with white- supremacist leanings; the elder John Schmitz’s “German preoccupation”; the elder Schmitz’s affinity for a college founded by Warren Carroll—whose name crops up in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy; Joseph Schmitz’s fascination with General von Steuben—the Prussian officer who was the first Inspector General of the Pentagon; discussion of  the Steuben Society—a Nazi Fifth Column organization in the United States during the World War II period; the German national security links to the World Security Network (with which Joseph E. Schmitz is affiliated); review of the many power-political connections of John P. Schmitz—Joseph’s brother.

http://www.spitfirelist.com/f476.html

listen Mp3
http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=12740

and here...
FTR#469—The Schmitzes—Republican Family Values

The difference between the image of the GOP’s “family values” propaganda and the reality as lived by GOP operatives is illustrated in this discussion of the life, times, and offspring of former Representative John G. Schmitz. An ultra-right winger from Southern California, Schmitz was too far to the right for the John Birch Society. His own “family values” came to light when it turned out he had a second family by his German mistress and that a son by that union had been sexually mutilated. Schmitz’s daughter--Mary Kay Le Tourneau—bore two children by one of her thirteen-year-old male students. Much of the program focuses on the presence of “things German” in the life and times of Schmitz and his son John P. Schmitz, raising the question of the possible relationship of the Schmitzes to the Bormann group. Of more interest than the elder Schmitz is his son John P. Schmitz, a former counsel to the elder George Bush and partner in a German international law firm that represents many of the German core corporations that comprise the main element of the Bormann organization.


Program Highlights Include: The elder Schmitz’s habit of giving a Nazi salute; the elder Schmitz’s curious association with Yasser Arafat (unusual for a Bircher);  the younger Schmitz’s presence in investigations involving various aspects of 9/11; the younger Schmitz’s involvement with both the Iran-Contra machinations and the Iraqgate scandal; the younger Schmitz’s work for former CDU treasurer Matthias Wissman; the younger Schmitz’s presence on the board of directors of the American Council on Germany;  the younger Schmitz’s work for Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering—one of D.C.’s most powerful law firms; the younger Schmitz’s work on behalf of Bayer AG, Bertelsmann, Deutsche Bank, Rober Bosch GmbH. Deutsche Welle (German TV).

http://www.spitfirelist.com/f469.html

Listen Mp3

http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=12188

[TahitiNut]

26. Wow! Full-fledged Nazi's, no less. What a stench.

Calling this adminstration 'fascist' has never been hyperbole.

[slaveplanet]

33. and Thanks is in order

to all the reality theorists here on DU who don't just point it out because it sounds good. It is legitimate to call these people what they are....

[Gabi Hayes]

36. thanks.....listening now....who is the radio guy?

it's available in Ben Lomond, CA!

used to live with a woman from there

[Gabi Hayes]

37. is that Schmitz congressman Mary Kay LeTourneau's DAD?

ha! from the website:

[slaveplanet]

41. Dave Emory

KKUP and KFJC anti fascist researcher ....archived on WFMU NY-

[Wizard777]

27. Resign my ass! That's desertion ....

of a sinking ship. It's damn good thing he's not in the Navy! They would Court Martial him for that.

[libhill]

30. Yeah, some Repukes are

seeing the writing on the wall, bailing out or trying real hard to appear moderate. They know they're finished.

[brettdale]

28. kick

kick

[OKJackson]

32. Kick! n/t

[elehhhhna]

39. kick

[McCamy Taylor]

38. Make some corporate cash before he goes to jail.

[libodem]

40. I can't get over the double standard

if Democrats were in the white house there would be such outrage and uproar...no wonder the repukes can get away with murder and mayhem....and with that now defunct story of bulldog gannon sneaking in and out of the white house at all hours probably some illicit blowjobs, too.